Name: Md.

Fazle Rabby Real

Id: 172011009
Sub: MSJ 11374
LOIS GREENFIELD
Name: Md. Fazle Rabby Real
Id: 172011009
Sub: MSJ 11374
Lois Greenfield is a photographer made famous for her work with dancers. She studied
anthropology and film-making at Brandeis University in the late 1960s. After graduating, she
worked as a freelance photographer in Boston covering anything for small publications. One
assignment was to cover a dance concert. After photographing rehearsals and performances,
she was inspired to continue mastering the technique of capturing unpredictable movement
onstage. She developed an impressive portfolio of dance photography and had photographs
printed in the Village Voice, New York Times, and Dance Magazine. Greenfield works in New
York City for publications such as Elle, New York Times, and Vogue. She shoots all the major
modern dance companies including Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, and the
Paul Taylor Dance Company. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout
the world and she is regarded as one of the best movement photographers in the world.
Fascinated with photography freezing a moment in time, most of her work is composed of
dancers who she says, “illustrate the passage of time.” Greenfield works mostly with simple
backgrounds to keep the dancer as the focus of the picture. She works in black and white and
color, and a wide number of dancers per shot. Many of the photographs show dancers reacting
to or dancing with a prop. She also shows movement through the dancers’ clothes in many
pictures. There is so much to take in and happening at once during a dance performance, that is
so interesting to find one tiny point in time and analyze the movement through a photograph.
She has a shot such a wide variety of dance styles from ballet to flamenco to hip hop
showcasing the endless ways to move the body. Her work is incredible making it difficult to
choose just three to show here. Her ability to improvise with the dancers without any formal
dance education or knowledge is brilliant. She captures the theme of the movement in a single
frame and always leaves the viewer asking how the dancers did it.
Because of Greenfield used color to create unity, the matching color and skin tone and the
background is so simple making the dancers the emphasis for this image and the light seems to
be coming from the different place and it’s pushing their shadows to the different angle and for
these reason Greenfield is my favorite photographer.

WEBSITE LINK: https://www.loisgreenfield.com/

Name: Md. Fazle Rabby Real
Id: 172011009
Sub: MSJ 11374